In this day of energy saving, many times we leave our gadgets Mobile phones, PDAs, MP3 players, Cameras, Laptops etc with charger plugged in overnight. Lets check if this is a major waste of energy..I just saw a commercial on television, sponsored by some kind of environmentalist group. They claimed that a cell…
Thomas Fox
Just when you thought flash drives were getting out of hand now. Corsair has come out with a 128 GB flash drive for roughly $400. This flash drive is not just bigger but a lot faster then any other flash drive. It writes twice as fast as any other drive but is only little faster reading data on the…
In the world of technology, this old saying is truly words of wisdom.My fellow Expert Guys here on this site have written more than one blog about the importance of backups. I would like to call attention to the fact that at least 95% of the clients I deal with have only one backup in…
Over the Halloween weekend, and even continuing into early this week, G MAIL users' have been unable to access their web mail. This incident is no where near as bad as the September 1st outage, but users' have every right to complain. Google's support forums were blasted over the weekend with hundreds of upset users.Apparently…
Tired of having to download all the new versions of software everytime you do a format and reload of Windows? There is neat tool that will go out and download the latest version of that software and then will auto start installing one application after the next that you choose silently, so you are not bothered with…
With the growing popularity of wireless, I have been asked "Why do I keep losing my connection?"Well, this can be do to a variety of reasons, a few I will cover here.Lots of things can affect wireless reception (basically a radio signal); construction of your house, interference from other devices and reflected signals etc. Being…
The long wait is over for the people still running Windows XP instead of Windows Vista. Windows 7 was released today as many techies waited outside of stores last night just to purchase the new Windows 7. Windows 7 is suppose to have better startup times, program performance and much more. The only thing it…
Grisoft, the manufacturer of the anti virus software known as AVG has upgraded once again. As of October 17th, 2009, version 9.0 is released. AVG being widely known for their network security for enterprise and personal protection, but probably best known as a great FREE antivirus program. Yes that's right, they have a free edition…
I was watching the 6 o'clock local news, and they had a warning for all computer users to watch for a new virus.They went on to describe a type of virus that has been out there for sometime now.These viruses parade themselves as legit programs that are trying to protect you from infections. But please…
Tuesday, October 13th, Adobe rolled out an astounding 29 patches to security vulnerabilities which apply to their Reader and other Adobe applications. These apply to all platforms, including Windows, Unix, and yes even Mac. Adobe released a security advisory last week warning of attacks exploiting critical flaws that could cause the apps to crash and…
DLL or Dynamic Link Library files are a group of files that silently function in the background of your computer and you may not be aware of their existence until one of them goes missing. An application may stop working, your computer may refuse to start, or it may even freeze. So, what are these…
How many times have I heard, "this website is loading so slow."I wish I had the perfect answer for this question, but the variable is it might not be the website. It could be the Internet access provider that you have, is experiencing an issue in your area causing a bottleneck type condition that can…